Recommended classifications

Recommended classes in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database are assigned by the database editor.
In most cases, this is based on the most recent classification that appears in either the Catalogue of Meteorites, MetBase,
the US Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter, the Japanese Meteorite Newsletter, or the Meteoritical Bulletin. However, in a few
cases it reflects differences of opinion about the proper way to classify the meteorite. The
nomenclature used may also be modified by the editor to conform to an internally consistent classification scheme

The recommended classification Iron, IIIE means:

"An iron meteorite belonging to chemical group IIIE."

The highlighted words are defined as follows:

iron meteorite: A meteorite that is dominantly composed of Fe-Ni metal and that crystallized from a melt.